Bush took his Cadillac limo over to the Capitol this morning and met with the Republican Senators. No doubt he told them that they would lose both houses of Congress if they didn’t legalize torture without amendments. Afterwards, someone asked Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) whether Bush had discussed Iraq.
“No, none of that,” Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. “You’re the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.”
This continues a trend started by George ‘Macaca’ Allen of dividing ‘real people’ from people that question GOP policies, who are, presumably, not real people. Or they are not real Americans. Or they are new real Virginians or Mississippians. Or whatever. But more disturbing that Trent Lott’s dismissive attitude about Iraq, the supposed central front on the war on terror, was his next comment.
Lott went on to say he has difficulty understanding the motivations behind the violence in Iraq.
“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”
We had over a year to debate the wisdom of invading Iraq and we have been there for over three years and Trent Lott still seems to have no idea about the Iraqi people, about their history, about their religion, about their divisions, about their society. This is a man that was majority leader of the Senate until December 20, 2002. That was after he had ushered through the resolutuon authorizing force in Iraq.
Any wonder that we have had one disaster after another in foreign and domestic policy?
My mind is going numb, I don’t even know how to counter this racist, ignorant bullshit anymore-it’s like an fucken avalanche of ignorance.
I hope you’re not surprised. I’m not.
The thing is, for every one of these elected people who think this way, there is legion behind behind them in the streets. We have much work to do…but for now, I’m going to get fucked up at Drinking Liberally.
Welcome to AmurKKKa land of the real stupid. This is your governement in action. One of your Senators showing his razor sharp wit and erudition.
I’m with John Brown on this issue:
‘I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.’
Bloodshed right here in America is a certain as the sun rising if the ReThugs cannot be stopped in the next two election cycles. It won’t be OBL shooting and blowing Americans up…
It will be other Americans.
Ignoring the blind racism for a second, WTF does he mean real people don’t obssess over Iraq? On the one hand, they constantly tell us Iran IS the war on terror and the war on terror is the greatest threat civilization has ever known; on the other hand, they don’t spend much time obssessing about it. What the hell is wrong with these people? If it is everything you pretend it is then you damn well better be obssessing about it 24/7.
Why can’t their moronic followers recognize the idiocy of this goddamned “war”? There is no consistency to anything they say, it shouldn’t be that hard to see through the bullshit.
The way I see it is that lott is only concerned about his own new suit and the shine on his new shoes and the rebuilding of his front porch. Anything else just simply does not make a dent on his thoughts. That is how they function…daily. That is his REAL PPL in his mind. Of course they can’t think about Iraq. They have lobbyists to meet and ppl to skim $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from on a daily basis. His aim is to help break the bank, kill the poor and sick and the children that remains hungry every night they go to bed till failure to thrive gets the better part of them and they die, too.
These are the kinds of ppl we have in our government. I have opened my own eyes and have seen that which I feared for all my life…That which I thought was gone forever…but their ghosts have reappeared to haunt us for the rest of our lives.
That says it all right there. No one is even attempting to study the differences, it’s all within the paradigm of what is normal within the American Weltansicht. No wonder they (meaning the entire world outside of our borders) hate us.
The world is too complex and dangerous a place for us to be lead by dumb, Southern crackers.
Unfortunately the real problem in my humble opinion is that some of the people in charge got their jobs because they knew how to GET the jobs but not how to get the job DONE.